DEVELOPER CRAFT
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- 2024-08-09End-to-End Testing an AI Application with Playwright and GitHub Actions
LLMs are notoriously finicky. You can try to corral them into an API, fine-tune them, lower their temperature, select JSON mode, pray, but in the end you may still end up with a hallucination rate of 15-20%.…
10 MIN - 2022-08-29A Guide to Getting Unstuck as a Developer
Every developer knows that deep, sinking feeling of being stuck. Being “blocked” can happen to a programmer at any moment, whether it’s a feature story, an elusive bug, or designing the architecture for an application.…
7 MIN - 2022-01-30Building a Serverless Stock Price Web App With Cloudflare Workers, Pages, Workers KV and Cron Triggers
Building a web app during college or a coding bootcamp, confronted with a dizzying array of programming jargon, developer tools, and uncertain integrations is overwhelming.…
13 MIN - 2021-10-20My 5-Step Approach to Problem Solving as a Junior Developer
I never loved the phrase “junior developer.” Junior evokes memories of little league baseball, a suboptimal grade level and perhaps even the esteemed Weenie Hut Jr’s (for the Gen Z crowd).…
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